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...Alaska, by contrast, public drunkenness among adults is the big and growing problem, especially in remote communities. In Nome (pop. 2,585), a Methodist minister led a drive to close the town's seven bars and three liquor stores, pointing to the fact that two other similar-size Alaskan towns had chosen to go dry. Nome's voters rejected the idea 3 to 1, but the town council passed an ordinance closing liquor stores early, which in Nome means midnight. Bars, however, can still serve customers until 5 a.m. on Friday and Saturday...
...bright spots in the nation's struggle to adjust to a world of rising petroleum costs. Although oil imports were down 13% in the first half of 1978, that was only the temporary result of some special factors, including the start of the flow of Alaskan...
...that the world's largest industrial nation and principal importer of oil has no comprehensive program of energy development and conservation. Nevertheless even without such a program, oil imports so far this year have dropped by 13% as a result of conservation efforts and increasing domestic production from the Alaskan North Slope...
...Honold, 20, an assistant cook who looks like a movie starlet and makes $906 a month (not counting overtime), is baking a chocolate cake. On the bridge, Captain DeTemple is stalking about in conventional irritation at having to share his command with Harbor Pilot Jim Hurd, the curly-headed Alaskan in charge of maneuvering Anchorage through the narrows. With a tug's help we get under way. Thirty minutes out Hurd calls for a hard left turn, followed by mildly tricky navigation past a needle-shaped island named Middle Rock. The channel is close to a half-mile wide...
...Fish War, as it was immediately dubbed, grew out of the adoption in 1977 by the two countries of 200-mile territorial limits for fishing. The jurisdictions overlapped in four areas: Georges Bank off New England, the Juan de Fuca Strait between Vancouver Island and Washington, waters off the Alaskan Panhandle and the Beaufort Sea off northeastern Alaska. With negotiations to settle the border problem going nowhere, Canada banned U.S. commercial fishermen from its waters. The U.S. quickly reciprocated...